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Ret. World Bank CTO on Desktop Linux TCO Facts

Posted by timothy on from the illusion-of-choice dept.

comforteagle writes "W. McDonald Buck, retired CTO of World Bank, believes we need to take a more honest and frank look at the Cost Analyses it will take to put Linux on the corporate desktop. In Part I of Corporate Desktop Linux - The Hard Truth he begins with one of the most common misconceptions... that a business can buy a computer without Windows and save money in the transaction."

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  1. Ofcourse by n0dalus · · Score: 4, Funny

    "The boxes with Windows are less expensive than the boxes without."

    This is common sense, they're paying us to help dispose of their rubbish.

  2. Re:Bring it on. by ggvaidya · · Score: 3, Funny

    We're talking about TCO - Total Cost of Ownership.

    You mispronounced 0wnership.

  3. Re:More Fodder for Anti-Trust? by Lu+Xun · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ah yes, then perhaps MS would have had to donate more of their own software in restitution for their abuse of monopoly. That'll teach 'em.

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